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Japan’s centenarian population has reached a record high as the country continues to maintain the world’s longest life expectancy – a milestone officials credit to healthy lifestyles and fewer fatal ...

Average life expectancy for both Japanese men and women rose for the first time in three years in 2023, health ministry ...

Shinto is the native religious tradition of Japan. I think it's easy to see visual signs of it throughout Japan, from the shrines (jinja) to the gates (torii). But what I was interested in finding out ...

Having grown up and lived in the US my entire life, my first night in Tokyo as a fresh college graduate was a full-on culture shock. I couldn't read the restaurant menu, so I had to point at pictures ...

For 19 years, Takehito Matsuba worked for two big corporations in Tokyo — Mitsubishi and Google. Like so many others, he reached an inflection point during the pandemic. Tired of working for big ...